'Out Of Gas'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
(no balls to be strung up by, so I'll risk it)
I'm kind of with Wolfram. Allyson, on not getting the rage. I hope to hell he is wrong, and that the show is a huge hit, but he was criticizing Fox for some of the very things we attack it for. Nothing bad was said about any of Tim's work.
Not seeing the balls strung up thing either. It read like a bitter attack on Fox to me. The stuff about The Inside also seemed like a pointed dig at Fox.
He's encouraging readers to not watch the show, to not bother lending their hearts to it. It's self defeating.
It also ignores Arrested Development, and FOX is hanging onto that, since everyone up the chain at FOX likes it, believes in it, and hopes it finds an audience.
I believe FOX feels the same way about The Inside.
Firefly and Wonderfalls weren't canceled because they were good, they were canceled because no one watched. People found these shows just as they were on the way out or gone. That was the biggest problem. If enough people tuned in out of the gate, these shows would still be on the air.
Telling people just to stop watching doesn't help. Have to meet the network half way and show up at the door. You don't have to take off your coat and settle in, but you give it a shot.
Don't get the rage. It's cynical and pessimistic, but not really offensive. If anything he's exactly on the money.
I'm with Wolfram here.
My procrastination on getting an LJ has resulted in someone setting one up for me as a 'present' which will provide increased pimping opportunuties for your Party.
Partyman, you're getting an LJ too? I just got one, and it sucks my time away beautifully.
Telling people just to stop watching doesn't help. Have to meet the network half way and show up at the door. You don't have to take off your coat and settle in, but you give it a shot.
But now I do get your point. Everything he said was true, but he should have instead taken the spin of, "Don't let this happen again, dammit."
He's encouraging readers to not watch the show, to not bother lending their hearts to it. It's self defeating.
He's really not. It's a modest proposal to just quit watching great television and skip right to the crap that you know is going to get renewed.
He may not have made the irony clear enough.
He's encouraging readers to not watch the show, to not bother lending their hearts to it. It's self defeating.
I didn't get that at all, and as others have said, he isn't saying anything that we, or even Tim (Friday is when Fox tries out it 13 ep DVD sets), haven't already said.
Awww, that's the sweetest.
You're welcome. Hell, even if I couldn't go I'd be pimping the party!
As you know I had an amazing time at the W&H AR, and this one will be even better, as I won't be 'Mr. Nervous at First Fan Party Ever' so much. Also, I have "catching up with folk I met last year" to add to the list of wonderful things to look forward too.
I don't need a pic of Tim, though. If he's wearing his glasses, ita might want it.
Glasses indeed. Ita enjoys the glasses? I thought her penchant was for the wet and the hands? Hmm.
Edited: Ohh, it gets better... Just found one of Fury surrounded by women...
Partyman, you'll be at the Lost party too?
Cool.
It read to me as a diatribe against Fox, and particularly scheduling of shows. If anything, it made me want to see "The Inside" more. I think if I was a smart person who had not seen "Wonderfalls" or "Firefly," hearing they were smart and multi-layered and unique would make me put down this article saying "The Inside, gotta make sure to put that on TiVO. Sounds interesting."
Am I being oversensitive mama bear, here?